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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: climate change
Saturday Afternoon TV: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse
This epic TED talk was filmed in 2003 and develops many of the themes Diamond included in his book Collapse. Pay special attention to his discussion of cultural values as impediments to a civilization’s survival — and the role of … Continue reading
Mars Needs Mark Beard Of Minnesota
Never mind that “elephant” field discovery peaked in the 1970s. Never mind if we are past peak oil or coal. Jeebus will take care of everything: (MN state representative Mike) Beard believes that “God is not capricious. He’s given us … Continue reading
Your Time Is Now
In the northern neighborhoods of Tehran the other night, cries of “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei.” Video after the jump…
Morning Awful: Record Low Sea Ice
The melt season is getting longer every year, and the ice limit keeps getting further from shore. Human activity is changing the ecology of an ocean before our eyes — but it doesn’t matter because Al Gore is fat, or … Continue reading
Wages Of Denial
The Economist reports: Between 1998 and 2010 there was a correlation of over 90% between changes in oil and wine prices. This encouraged the two economists to build an economic model to explain swings in the prices of crude oil … Continue reading
Morning Awful: One Big Ball Of Denial
Elections have consequences, they say. The new GOP House majority started with “repeal” of Obamacare — a vote in denial of rapidly-rising health care premiums — and now moves on to denial of climate change. McClatchy: The new chairman of … Continue reading
Leveling Authority
At TIME, the admirable Christopher Hayes previews his forthcoming book on American elites: It’s beyond our ability to recognize the imperceptible upward creep of global temperatures, so we must rely on the authority of those who are doing the highly … Continue reading
Green Dragons And Green Faith
Right Wing Watch reports on a new video series about the “dangers” of environmentalism. Money quote: Resisting the Green Dragon is therefore particularly timely because it not only refutes the scientific case for dangerous manmade warming and other “crises,” but … Continue reading
Global Warming Is Changing This River
I was reading about expansion plans at the Browns Ferry plant near my house when I came upon these ‘graffs: Browns Ferry discharges the non-radioactive water used to cool its reactors into the Tennessee River. TVA’s discharge permit with the … Continue reading
The Watermelon Principle
You know the joke: enviroweenies are green on the outside but red on the inside, like a watermelon. In other words, the people who want to stop poisoning and spending America into a hole are all socialists, see, so you … Continue reading
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
So “scientists” have discovered evidence of past civilizations flourishing in the Amazon: SAN MARTIN DE SAMIRIA, PERU – To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial … Continue reading
